Our Holiday Home Tour

December 6, 2016|

Hi Friends! Happy Happy Tuesday! As promised, I’m sharing our Holiday Home Tour today in one of my favorite posts of the entire year! First, I’m so glad that you guys loved yesterday’s Gift Guide post. There was lots of great feedback and it seems like the top picks were the faux fur throw and lots of David Yurman…my kind of girls! Now back to Holiday’s at our house….Lindsay of The White Buffalo Styling Co. graciously invited me back to share our festive decor as part of her amazing Blogger Stylin’ Home Tour Series. This will be my THIRD Christmas participating and I can’t even get over it (see 2014 HERE and 2015 HERE)!! If you’re here from Sarah’s amazing blog, WELCOME!

This year, I didn’t change a ton in regards to our decor, but of course I made a few tweaks here and there! I hope that you’ll come in, kick off your shoes, fix yourself a cup of hot cocoa and stay with us for a while…

OUR HOLIDAY HOME TOUR

For our entry, I stuck with simple magnolia garland and filled it in with a few real magnolia leaves that I swiped from our neighborhood common area…whoops! I added the boxwood wreath and darling merry Christmas sign (both linked below), for a simple statement as we welcome you in for the Holidays. Also, I posted this photo on Instagram and got tons of questions about the two Christmas Tree planters flanking our door! Well here’s the good + bad news…GOOD NEWS: They are a super easy and wildly inexpensive DIY (we’re talking $15/each, gals)!! BAD NEWS: I had hoped to share the tutorial today, but ended up having to push it back a little. Sign up HERE for first alerts when the post goes live.

HOLIDAY HOME TOUR DETAILS:

HOLIDAY HOME TOUR DETAILS:

I’m still very much obsessed with our flocked tree from last year and really wasn’t ready to give up the Ombre look, so I decided to only slightly tweak the tree in our front room. I went with a reverse ombre (light to dark), compared to last year’s traditional ombre (dark to light) and added pink into the mix. I think that this little pink and blue combination had a lot to do with my building suspense of finding out what this baby is! p.s. we still don’t know the gender…we will try to find out *again* on Friday!

Since I really didn’t spend a ton of new Holiday decor I did splurge a little on gift wrap and boxes. They add a whole new dimension to the tree and I think that they are well worth their $3-5 price tag! See my favorites below…

Gift Wrap:

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Moving on from the formal living aka front room to the family room…

I get SO many questions + comments about these stockings! They were actually a Homegoods find and we love them…well I take that back….I love them! Not quite sure how my husband feels about his gold sequin stocking, but that’s really irrelevant, right?! This year I added small initials ($1 bin at Michaels) to each and love the extra detail 😉

No Holiday Home Tour would be complete without a hot cocoa station! Remember this entire hot cocoa party from last year??? The Nepresso is definitely one of my favorite kitchen gadgets and I’ve been using the frother to add some frothed + steamed coconut milk to my hot chocolate…YUM!

HOLIDAY HOME TOUR DETAILS:

We just shared the full reveal of Landry’s BIG GIRL ROOM a few weeks back (see it HERE) and, since she’s older now, I wanted to try putting up a tree in her sweet little space. I scored this mini flocked tree at Walmart (see the details in THIS Instgram) for $30 and I’m not sure who was more excited her or I! There were the sweetest ballerina ornaments at Walmart as well, so she declared that she wanted a pink and gold ballerina tree…well twist my arm why don’t ya! They whole thing (with ornaments and lights) was well under $50 and has brought us all so much joy!

While we were shooting this Holiday home tour, my mom was here visiting. We bought this gingerbread house one day when her and I were out shopping and had planned to surprise Landry with it. They decided to put it together while we were busy taking photos and I couldn’t resist these sweet snaps!

The shades are a new addition to the room…see this post for details. To make the space more festive I scored these simple garland wreaths for $2 at Walmart (!!!), the ribbon for around $3/roll at Michaels and hung them from our windows using these command hooks. Such a simple and festive way to add some greenery to any room…not to mention INEXPENSIVE!

Only your Gigi let’s you lick more icing that you apply, right?!? Wink wink

Thank you so so much for joining us today! It’s always fun to share a Holiday Home Tour because it really does feel like you’ve invited friends into your house to celebrate this special time of year!

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I’m the end of the tour for today, but I hope that you’ll start with Lindsay and look at all of yesterday’s Home Tours as well OR head to start tomorrow’s tours with my friend Cassie!

Need help Christmas shopping?? I’ve been steady working as your little elf putting together comprehensive Gift Guides with tips and tricks on how to be the best gift giver of ever this year! See them all in one place HERE.

Blown away Mallory! I love all your tree. In my own house I can’t get enough of trees too. Yours are so stylish and pretty and I love that they are all different. your daughter’s room is so darling. Merry Christmas my friend.

How adorable are you in that skirt! LOVE the gold sequin stockings. When the hubs gets tired of his, feel free to send it my way! So excited to hear about the baby gender…eek!! I remember those days! Merry Christmas to you Mallory and your cute family!
xoxo

Funny story—I went to put the skirt on and it totally didn’t zip (even over the bump!), so there are some shots of me and my undone skirt trying to look like I have it all pulled together, when I’m really a hot mess LOL! But thank you, it’s a favorite and I’ll be delighted when I can wear it again. I’m also certain that the hubby would have his sequin stocking over-nighted to you if he knew it was on option ;);) Merry Christmas, mama!